S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies.”
“Silent Summer - a never-ending heat wave, devoid of birdsong, insect hum, and all the weird and wonderful living noises that subconsciously keep us company.”
“Silent tears are the worst. It's the sign of a broken spirit. No sound, no residual emotions... just tears. Silent, unstoppable tears.”
Source: Spencer Cohen, Book Two
“Silent wars are fought on mental battlefields.”
“Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth,
like an empty cradle waiting to be filled.
And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth,
like a mother breathing life into her child.”
“Silent, where you can't hear anything on the outside, but inside you are singing with every fiber of your being. And you're connected, through joy, to every stranger near you, even if nobody stops to speak. Not that I wish to talk, either. Instead, I stand still, mid-block, on Queens Boulevard, while listening for something that can't be quite heard physically. Yet somehow the sweetest silence is peeking out through the whoosh and rushing of other pedestrians, and despite how loudly the cars are squeaking, due to the wet roads.”
Source: Bigger than All the Night Sky: The Start of Spiritual Awakening—A Memoir
“Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.”
“Silent words are heard through eyes.”
Source: 10 Alone
“Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.”
Source: Ship of Destiny
“Silentium![1]
Молчи, скрывайся и таи
И чувства и мечты свои —
Пускай в душевной глубине
Встают и заходя́т оне
Безмолвно, как звезды́ в ночи, —
Любуйся ими — и молчи.
Как сердцу высказать себя?
Другому как понять тебя?
Поймёт ли он, чем ты живёшь?
Мысль изрече́нная есть ложь.
Взрывая, возмутишь ключи, —
Питайся ими — и молчи.
Лишь жить в себе самом умей —
Есть целый мир в душе твоей
Таинственно-волшебных дум;
Их оглуши́т наружный шум,
Дневные разгоня́т лучи, —
Внимай их пенью — и молчи!..
1830”
“Silently a flower blooms,
In silence it falls away;
Yet here now, at this moment, at this place,
The world of the flower, the whole of
the world is blooming.
This is the talk of the flower, the truth
of the blossom;
The glory of eternal life is fully shining here.”
Source: A Flower Does Not Talk: Zen Essays
“Silently and sadly, the village lived its simple life.”
Source: Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest
“Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.”
“Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.”
Source: Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
“Silently repeat to yourself: I forgive myself for any ways in which I knowingly or unknowingly caused hurt or harm to any living being or creature. I forgive all who have ever hurt or harmed me. Everything between us is now cleared up.”
“Silently, sadly, the earth covered life coinage is read both ways; so much vs. so little and…so little vs. …so much!”
“Silently she stared at the splintered pieces and felt the flame in her soul gutter. The flame she had nurtured since she was a child. The flame that had in it what little sparks of happiness she had ever known as well as all her hopes and dreams for the future. She had tended it so carefully and for so long, and in one, horrendous, agonizing second, felt it simply... go out.”
Source: Victor's Blessing
“Silently, she wondered whether this was the same desperation, the same impotence that grips many men by their shirts, their T-shirts, their work vests, gripping them equally hard, shaking them and leading them to drink,to beating or the noose. Was this it?”
Source: Sweet Medicine
“Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away (from the animal, our plate, our concern, ourselves) or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something”
“Silently we lie there, staring at each other. Eventually Ivy moves; to my delight she rolls closer to me, snuggling her head into the crook of my shoulder and placing a hand on my chest. Carefully I drape my arm around her waist and comb my fingers through her long hair while my other hand pulls the forgotten blanket over us.
"Rylan?" Ivy murmurs a minute later.
"Yeah?"
"Tell me again the words you told me when we were dancing."
I grin into her scalp. "I like you."
"I...like you, too."
Her fingers dance across my heart.”
“Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.”
“Silently, I lifted my doggy bowl off the floor. Then, with a quick, powerful flip of my wrist, I threw it into the back of Blondie’s head so hard that – with an earsplitting bang – it smashed flat before it ricocheted across the room and snapped the round top piece off the thick newel post at the foot of the stairs.”
Source: Breaking Dawn: Twilight
“Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem.”
“Siler smiled. He poured. He fiddled with the jukebox app and pulled up “All the Time in the World” from Secret Monkey Weekend. Let’s start with the clear blue skies . . .
“I miss the days when we sat around Pig Farm doing nothing,” Siler said. “I miss time.”
“Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!”
Source: Watership Down
“Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.”
“silhouettes of your imagination
splashes of a picture on a magazine
Is there a mind behind the face?
if you met your dream,
would you think their human heart
could be erased?
So you say you love an icon,
a hero you’ve never met
And when you saw them for a moment
even on t.v. it’s their
image you can’t forget
Remember when you had me there?
tell me, if you had me now
Would you try to be more amusing
or would you ask me if i was teasing
when i hold you in my arms on the silver screen
/ you didn’t know i was real /
and now-i’m just a dream-
Burnt - Here”
Source: Here
“Silicon and Sapiens (The Sonnet)
Once upon a time,
I put down my soldering iron
and picked up the keyboard,
for I couldn't afford to sustain
my passion for electronics any more.
But now that I look back,
It was for the best.
The world has plenty tech genius,
what it lacks is reformer scientist.
My inside awareness of machine intricacies
has been an aid to my neuroscience.
In a world torn between mind and machine,
I bridge the shores of silicon and sapiens.
Biologists often diss the potential of machine,
just like gadgeteers are oblivious to life.
Life is a cosmic miracle, machines are a human one,
and with added purpose, machines could be
the mightiest defense of life.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Silicon Bayou - aka Lafayette, LA - is the best kept secret reservoir of innovation mojo in America”
“Silicon Psychos (The Sonnet)
If we cared more about the hard problem of real inhumanity,
And less about the fictitious hard problem of consciousness,
We'd have filled the world with human consciousness already,
Instead of still fighting for basic rights against base biases.
What kind of a moron goes walkabout when their home is on fire,
What kind of a moron abandons the living chasing life on silicon!
We really gotta take a hard look at our habits and priorities,
Dreaming is good, but dream devoid of life is but degeneration.
Chimps driving teslas are still chimps no matter the demagoguery,
All intelligence is disgrace if it's unaware of human condition.
A heartless organism living on silicon is no different,
From a heartless organism living in a carbon based human.
Be it crucifix or code, in savage hands every tool is weapon.
The wise use AI to design prosthetics, savages for transhumanism.”
Source: Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None
“Silicon Valley benefits, as all of industry, from highly protectionist policy - patent policies and things like that - which come out of the government.”
“Silicon Valley companies need to be asked to bring the best and brightest, the most recent technology to the table. I was asked as a CEO. I complied happily. And they will as well. But they have not been asked. That's why it cost billions of dollars to build an [Barack] Obama website that failed because the private sector wasn't asked.”
“Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.”
“Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.”
“Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.”
“Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.”
“Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways.”
“Silicon Valley is way more correlated with Nasdaq than anyone admits.”
“Silicon Valley isn't usually where aspiring authors go to kick-start a literary reputation. [...] How'd he do it? By courting bloggers and influential techies like Joi Ito, Stewart Brand, and Craig Newmark demonstrating that if you can get the geek grapevine on your side, you don't need Random House.”
“Silicon Valley’s obsessive overhyping of “artificial intelligence”—by which they mean jumped-up large language models fueled by venture capital and systematic plagiarism—probably has far more to do with the Homo economicus boss’s fantasies of the robotic ideal worker than it does with the likely actual benefits, to most people, of such technologies. We have built a society that needs us to be machines!”
Source: Why Christians Should Be Leftists
“Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.”
“Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big. Democracy is always frustrating, but it creates a society that, for example, allows us to invest in each other's kids, to have public education, to have both a greater society and individual freedom for creating businesses.”
“Silicon Valley TV Series are all about incubated human behavior.”
“Silicon Valley wouldn't exist without massive government spending and in fact initiative.”
“Silicon Valley's involvement with Washington dates from one event, which was John Scully - who was the CEO of Apple - had dinner with President Clinton and Vice President Gore in 1993. And we're all going, like, 'What's going on? Why would we have dinner with the president?'”
“Silicon Valley, "the largest legal creation of wealth in history," was built largely by unprofessional amateurs using math, sand, and the institutions of freedom. The Soviet Union had the greatest mathematicians on earth, and plenty of sand, but without the institutions of freedom their brilliant mathematicians were not empowered to create those devices that are changing the world.”
Source: Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World?s Problems
“Silicon Valley, after all, feeds off the existence of computers, the internet, the IT systems, satellites, the whole of micro electronics and so on, but a lot of that comes straight out of the state sector of the economy. Silicon Valley developed, but they expanded and turned it into commercial products and so on, but the innovation is on the basis of fundamental technological development that took places in places like this [MIT] on government funding, and that continues.”
“Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.”
Source: Where Good Ideas Come From
“Silicone breast implants make you healthier.”
“Silk and Shadows is something else. Like brilliant. It got under my skin as very, very few books have. It's still under my skin. Mikhal was haunting.”